I have a pretty simple question, How to make sidebar content nofollow in wordpress blogs. I just started working over my blog namely seocomfort.com and I am getting familiar with wordpress day by day. How to make left side bar nofollow and other items in my blog. I know how to make a link nofollow but here the case is bit different. Have any idea? Please share.
I guess I have asked this question in the wrong thread (but am sure many people do know the answer to this. This is more of seo related question. I just asked it here due to the fact that the question caters to wordpress cms. And I guess we have a couple of wordpress experts here. We can use nofollow through robot.txt but how about doing same things in the coding. It gives more control over every aspect of every page. Any ideas? Also if we use any sitemap generator plugin then won't the links on homepage be it categories or archives would be duplicate content?
No, by left sidebar I meant the one starting with "recent posts" and ending with "blogroll" I want to know how to make any individual widget nofollow and making individual links nofollow in blogroll. Thanks for asking the confusion Ikki
Hi GA, I did a quick search on Google and I found a few ideas that you might want to check: "NoFollow" for the Blogroll: - There's a WP Plugin that can do the job for you. Here it is: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blogroll-nofollow/ - You can manually edit your blog's template and do some tweaking. Here's how: http://www.thevincefiles.net/index.php/2008/01/22/how-to-add-relnofollow-to-wordpress-blogroll-links http://www.justin-cook.com/wp/2007/11/21/how-to-add-nofollow-to-wordpress-blogroll-links/ http://www.go4expert.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7265 (I believe this is the one you need!) I couldn't find anything useful or easy to make links in your widgets "nofollow". Maybe I'll try again later Hope that helps!
Yes, that would be definitely helpful. I am thankful that you did that much search for me. I am also having a couple of ideas but there are more complex aspects to consider. If you can do more search, I'll be waiting for your bump to this thread. In the mean time, others may come up with interesting ideas. The whole idea is to discuss about how can one completely remove the problem of duplicate posts. Like If I have an xml sitemap and I mention it in robots.txt then All the dofollow on homepage would be duplicate content? If we also mention xml sitemap in robots.txt and html sitemap in navigation links, won't that be duplicate? If we dofollow all the links on homepage, in my theme, I have recent posts, recent comments, featured articles, latest posts. I mean this way I will have a bunch of duplicate posts and I'll do more bad than good.
No, all the link in WP are not nofollow. Just the comment links are nofollow by default. By the way, Its easy to nofollow blogroll and I guess we can easily nofollow archives and categories from robots.txt. But what If I have added two categories lists on two different sidebars. Confusing? Look seocomfort.com, see quick selection and categories are actually same. How to nofollow quick selection and let categories dofollow? just for learning purposes. Now, the real question is how to nofollow recent posts, featured and asides on my blog. Any ideas, anybody? Its a 2 min job for a good programmer, there are many ways though I am not deep in to programming so that is indeed an issue for me.
I think you can simply add rel="nofollow" in the link area of those scripts, like the latest posts, popular posts, etc.
Well, it is not that simple. I wish if it can be that simple. I agree we can add nofollow to the link area. But widgets like "Meta" that contain links, how we can nofollow that? And how can we nofollow a plugin link? that is on my blog seocomfort.com - I am talking about the translator plugin right below the recent posts section.
The Meta section isn't that hard to change. All you have to edit your theme's sidebar.php file. Add a rel="nofollow" to all links there. There's no need to use a plugin for that